How to Get Kapp’n in Animal Crossing New Horizons

In Animal Crossing: New Horizons, Kapp’n provides boat tours once you’ve unlocked him. With the 3.0 update, you now also need to unlock Kapp’n to be able to use the hotel on your island.

As a huge Animal Crossing fan, I’m so excited about the updates! Now, Kapp’n can take you on boat trips to mystery islands – it costs 1,000 Nook Miles, and you can go twice a day! It’s a great way to find those special items like Cherry Blossoms, Star Fragments, and Gyroid Fragments. But the best part? The hotel! It’s a massive addition to the game. You get to design rooms and do DIY projects, which unlock cool new items and features, and you even earn Hotel Tickets for completing tasks. It’s seriously adding so much to the game!

We’ve put together a guide explaining how to unlock Kapp’n in Animal Crossing: New Horizons, and we’ve also covered all the different kinds of islands he’ll take you to.

How to Get Kapp’n in Animal Crossing New Horizons

To get Kapp’n in ACNH, you need to:

Unlock the art section of the Museum
Achieve a three-star island rating
Have your first K.K Slider concert and see the credits

Once K.K. Slider has his first concert, Isabelle will let you know that boat tours are available. Just go to the end of the pier on your island to find Kapp’n waiting in his boat.

If you don’t see Kapp’n at his boat, go inside the hotel on the pier. This will start a conversation with Tom, Kapp’n, and Leilani. Once the conversation is over, Kapp’n will go back to waiting at his boat outside.

The articles linked above provide detailed instructions for earning a three-star island rating and unlocking K.K. Slider, but here’s a quick, simplified guide to the process:

Pay off your initial debt with 5,000 Nook Miles
Construct Nook’s Cranny
Build your first bridge
Build and place furniture for 3 arriving villagers
Construct the building for Residential Services
Construct the campground
Talk to Isabelle to see your Island Evaluation
Have at least eight villagers (having nine or ten gives you even more points)
Pull all weeds on your island
Plant and water lots of varieties of flowers
Plant different varieties of trees and bushes (but having too many trees will deduct points)
Place more variety of items outside
Place more bridges, inclines, and fences

If you complete all the steps mentioned earlier, you should get your 3-star island rating soon after K.K. Slider visits. Just make sure your island isn’t overly cluttered with trees or items scattered on the ground, like branches, rocks, shells, and bottles.

All Kapp’n Island Types in Animal Crossing New Horizons

Here’s a list of all the types of island you can get while on Kapp’n boat tours in ACNH:

Gyroid islands (common)
Crop islands (common)
Vine/Moss islands (common)
Raining/Snowing Gyroid islands (rare)
Star Fragment islands (rare)
Cherry Blossom islands (rare)
Bamboo islands (rare)
Summer Shell islands (rare)
Mushroom islands (rare)
Maple Leaf islands (rare)
Snowflake islands (rare)

There’s also a few other important details to keep in mind about Kapp’n islands:

Before the 3.0 update, you could only go on one boat tour a day, but now you can visit a second island by using 100 Hotel Tickets in ACNH after you complete the first VIP room in the hotel.
Each island always has one Gyroid Fragment buried on it. Raining/Snowing Gyroid islands also have a full gyroid buried on them.
Kapp’n Islands can have a different season or time of day from your island’s current season and time, which you can take advantage of to collect new fish, insects, and sea creatures for your collection.
Each island has a message bottle, with each island type containing different DIY recipes in the bottle.
You will always get a rare island by receiving a good fortune from Katrina the fortuneteller.
You can buy basic tools with Nook Miles from Kapp’n on a boat tour island if you forgot to bring one, or one breaks.

2026-01-20 11:04

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